I asked it to tell me what it has in its context and it told me:
>Your approximate location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN — this comes from a single line in my system prompt (“User’s approximate location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN”), not from anything you told me.
Claude is very insistent that it doesn’t know where I am, even on direct questioning and on being asked to tell me all its available metadata. Did you replicate this with a VPN? I did this experiment variously while VPNed to the Netherlands, Poland, or Singapore.
Location leaks into incognitio.
I asked it to tell me what it has in its context and it told me:
>Your approximate location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN — this comes from a single line in my system prompt (“User’s approximate location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN”), not from anything you told me.
This is a setting
Claude is very insistent that it doesn’t know where I am, even on direct questioning and on being asked to tell me all its available metadata. Did you replicate this with a VPN? I did this experiment variously while VPNed to the Netherlands, Poland, or Singapore.